A música e a inserção social de jovens em risco

Abstract

With this study - "Music and social inclusion of youth at risk"– we want to see how music – a form of expression/communication and context of teaching / learning can help young people cope with and overcome the difficulties and school barriers that lead to social exclusion. We try to understand how 'non-formal' learning contexts' – through artistic expression – favor and enhance the acquisition of personal and social skills, which translate into citizenship skills for insertion. For this, we chose to observe the teaching of music and chose the first group who graduated from the Design Orchestra Generation, in School Miguel Torga, Amadora, as they have already some years of existence and a journey of learning achieved. We could easily realize that the study of this project would take us to the deepening of different theoretical areas: on the one hand if we set out to the study placing music at the center of the intervention, we soon realized that the areas would expand because the orchestra, on being inserted in a school environment, made us decide to look into the intervention by education, using stimuli that fall outside the classroom environment. Moreover, noting that this project is organized as a result of institutional and organizational partnerships, this fact has made us focus also on the network intervention, as well as the iteration of the actors at the territorial level. This is an exploratory research, focused on a case study, which followed an inductive approach and understanding. We start from the observed reality, ie, the meaning and significance attributed by actors to their experiences and life - fifteen students participating in the project OGMT – to translate them into concepts that might allow us to perceive the relationship between contextual and experiential factors. Our observation focuses on the testimonies of young students/musicians, hence to deduce how the emotional and motivational contexts interfere in the processes of teaching/learning. The conclusions drawn lead us to affirm that the reality recreated by Orchestra Generation has been changing the life trajectories of young people who participate in it. We can infer that the strength of the project lies, on the one hand, in the empowerment of young people themselves, based on the relationship between trainer and trainee, and secondly, the networks that are generated between the various stakeholders in the project, providing new opportunities to new resources and new social capitals. Some questions/interpellations are left in a way of looking to improve more and more intervention in these fields of action, of teaching skills for citizenship and access to social rights. It is considered that this is an issue where there are the theoretical frameworks of Social Work, as an additional "disciplinary gaze" that is built on the ground, to be in the experience of the actors-users themselves to find the structural concepts, modelers of a new intelligibility of practice.

Date of Award	25 Jan 2013
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Isabel Vieira (Supervisor) & Jorge Alexandre Costa (Co-Supervisor)